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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)--- ----S. 25-A---Grievance petition---Limitation---Petition was filed by employee with a considerable delay---No sufficient cause having been made out to condone such delay, petition was rightly dismissed being barred by time. Riaz Ahmed Shahid v. Manager, Manaro Textile Mills, Kotri 1992 PLC 701 ref. Muhammad Ashraf Khan for Appellant. Zahid Hamid for Respondent. Date of hearing: 18th April, 1993. DECISION This appeal calls in question the order of the Labour Court No. IV, Karachi, dismissing the application riled by the petitioner under section 25-A of the I.R.O., 1969. The circumstances in which it arose, in brief, are as follows. 2. The petitioner was working in the Process Auto Transport (Operation) Department of the respondent as a time-keeper. He had submitted his resignation on 21-11-1988. It appears that he was also working as a Sales Manager with the State Life Insurance Company, and this news had travelled to the respondents through the State Life Insurance Authorities themselves. Khursheed Ali who has been examined as a witness on behalf of the respondents has stated that their Organisation wanted to employ the petitioner on a permanent basis and had therefore suggested to him to severties with any other establishment where he might have been working. He had gone on to add that it was at his instance that the petitioner had submitted the resignation before the respondents. 3. Be that as it may, apprised of this situation the respondents issued a show-cause notice to the petitioner as to why he should not be proceeded against for misconduct on the score of this double employment. The petitioner had submitted a reply in denial. As it did not satisfy the respondents, a domestic enquiry was ordered. Muhammad Ibrahim was appointed as Enquiry Officer to conduct the enquiry. 4. The course of the enquiry, however, never ran smooth. It is clearly made out that the petitioner had supporters inside the Organisation who did not want him to come to any harm as a result of the enquiry. They wanted that instead curtain be dropped by the acceptance of his resignation. The result was that Muhammad Ibrahim, the Enquiry…

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